第二十九课|工作："dead presidents"是死了的总统？

标题

工作："dead presidents" 是死了的总统？

对话原文及知识点

对话一：

A: How is your work?

B: It’s ok. I guess. I just love those dead presidents.

A: Yeah. Money of course can do the tricks. But don’t go off the deep end. It’s not everything.

知识点：

1. dead presidents    美元，钱

2. do the trick    有效，达到目的 

3. go off the deep end    走极端

对话二：

A: Morning, everyone. I proposed staff increases to our production, but the CEO shot down my idea.

B: That’s hard.

A: Yeah, we are counting on that.

B: I know, but money is getting tighter with this economic slowdown. We have to freeze our operating costs.

A: Makes sense; we have to increase revenues and hold costs.

知识点： 

1. shoot down    否决

2. count on    指望

3. Money is getting tighter.

= The budget is tighter.    钱很紧张，手头很紧张

4. freeze cost 

= hold cost    控制成本

5. make sense    有道理

思考题

“美元” 还能怎么说？